joyce , james joyce. (author of the week)

have you ever heard of james joyce ?
I bet you have not, he may be the inspiration of many of your favorite authors today.
hailing from Ireland , James Augustine Aloysius Joyce is a writer an poet , for works such as Ulysses (1922) loosely based on his school days in Dublin and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) and Finnegans Wake (1939).






before he began writing professionally, he had to make a living doing odd jobs , and living in poverty. his father was a alcoholic and his mother fell ill. he went off to paris to begin studying medicine but found the teachings to techincal to fully understand, he linger on for a few years then returning home when a telegram was sent but his father notifying him of his mother dying.


mr.joyce has had quite of life thus bringing the subjects of his books to life based on many of the experiences he had throughout his life until his death in 1941. this is what makes joyce one of the most influential writers in modernism and American literature as well.


if you want to learn more about james joyce, click the link below to be taken to his wikipedia.


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-the MS team.